info:doi/10.1038/440396a 2006-03-23T00:00:00Z 2006-03-23T00:00:00Z © 2006 Nature Publishing Group Nature 440 7083 396 397 0028-0836 1476-4679 (?-mix:\s+\W+|\W+\s+|\s+|\/) his at science Hwang University journal last embryonic Science will years has after research researchers over week committee prize Canadian quantum John licence two such Boehlert have about CMA stem-cell human images National its But US not Association Korea Barrow including published Medical work association then fish board now Chan licensed divinity sacked Templeton cooled use they odds cosmologist year's South Republican March solid Nature physics already next He House no member Hwang's Board decision state editors if Fish members editorial 15 available Committee says second behaviour phenomenon three papers eggs Institution Scientists investigation Digital spawned 10 books regain underlying provide retirement panel ten cloning six out crystal 11 427 exploring potential although funds magnetic above include health American Supersolidity subsidiary rife month 16 having US$1.4 Pennsylvania Created Three one mathematician bags top International perceptions 19 ex-board Graham Court review Physical CMA's many superfluid collection Journal There sides fired Galapagos debates fusion appears planned flow report Maryland example meant do might therapeutic obtain 400 met been university George trust Scripps won Townes admitted followed criminal teams Billy Foundation. came representing journal's conduct Noted discoveries care reported recruited scans San philanthropist slowly Society's Devereaux Tennessee defects lost stem released Philip experiments see weeks saying old under kelvin supersolidity below State job Bioethics Suk recognizes presented Through retired ordering Universe million elections justice digital worth contraception international Results Welfare's requirement stop Health costs chairing led meeting Library there who recipients physicist Supreme 1,000 nine legal grant experience nothingness Previous benefit ITER confusion Ellis evangelist 2004 views chairman Cambridge 2005 Democrat private play experiment 2006 open New Mother chair confirmed several terms Gordon Barrow's Baltimore Station 20 everything results believe Helium 2.5-million Eun-Seong catalogue some carry helium-4 Antonio past tool functional strange paper ship containing scientific 24 known specimens team's remove disappears imaging government rotated fertilization-based Cornell Internet retractions made least Speculation Cosmologist Democrats ago had California Reppy leadership participation more accusing first includes Charles damning re-election helium's shark than support April slightly effects helium Retraction early 0.3 year suggest Space letter Lamer Teresa resigned Seoul independent heated astronomy 225 mysteries Bart new candidate head mathematics Holdings revoke bizarre 227 Diego begins likely jumped popular 10.1038 Oceanography teachers vitro expand completed York fake net effect Ministry resonance undermining crisis required plan control into Congress between infinity makes publication Prize he relationship data used retraction scan Representatives seek five dissection cells Woo successors role anatomical species seen draws explain Moses groups make powerful 500 played 795,000 when 440 longer expected responded succeed days items key UK announced because three-dimensional pictured 440010b Kim high-resolution methods chief Sherwood theories creating Solid "The (?-mix:\.\s+(?=[A-Z])) A new "digital dissection tool" for exploring the high-resolution images will be made available to researchers and science teachers Barrow's work includes more than 15 books, over 400 scientific papers and a popular play Board members believe it was because they published items at odds with the CMA's views on contraception and private health care Board of Canadian journal sides with sacked editors The editorial board of the Canadian Medical Association Journal jumped ship last week But Chan says this is at odds with his team's experience But results presented at the American Physical Society's meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, last week have spawned confusion about the physics underlying the phenomenon But the retractions meant that Hwang no longer met the legal requirement of having at least one publication in embryonic stem-cell science in the past three years Committee member Bart Gordon (Democrat, Tennessee) is a likely candidate if the Democrats regain control of the House after next year's elections, and there are many potential Republican successors Cosmologist Barrow bags prize for divinity Noted mathematician and cosmologist John Barrow of the University of Cambridge, UK, has won this year's Templeton Prize, worth £795,000 (US$1.4 million) Created by philanthropist John Templeton, the prize recognizes discoveries that "expand human perceptions of divinity" Fish images provide net benefit to researchers US researchers are creating a Digital Fish Library containing anatomical images of about 1,000 fish, such as the Galapagos shark pictured above, and will make it available on the Internet For example, experiments led by John Reppy of Cornell University suggest that the effect disappears if the crystal is heated and then slowly cooled to remove defects He draws on mathematics, physics and astronomy to explain the behaviour of the Universe, theories of everything, and such mysteries as infinity and nothingness He had already planned to stop chairing the science committee, as required after three terms In his 24 years in Congress, including six as head of the science panel, Boehlert has played a key role in government debates over science, including US participation in the International Space Station and the international fusion experiment ITER Of its 19 members, 15 resigned, saying they do not trust the leadership of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Previous recipients of the prize include physicist Charles Townes, cosmologist George Ellis, Mother Teresa and evangelist Billy Graham Results of a criminal investigation into Hwang's research and use of funds are expected in early April Retraction costs Hwang his licence and his job Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University in South Korea lost his licence to conduct embryonic stem-cell research on 16 March, and was fired by the university on 20 March Science committee chair makes retirement plan The powerful chairman of the US House of Representatives science committee, Sherwood Boehlert (Republican, New York), announced last week that he will not seek re-election next year Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, will use functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan fish specimens representing about 500 species from the collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Solid support for helium's second quantum state Helium, already known for its bizarre "superfluid" behaviour, has been confirmed to have a second, strange quantum state Speculation is rife over who might succeed Boehlert Supersolidity appears when solid helium is cooled below 0.3 kelvin and rotated slightly The CMA has recruited Antonio Lamer, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court, to review the relationship between the association, its subsidiary CMA Holdings and the journal. "The journal is in crisis," says ex-board member Philip Devereaux The Ministry of Health and Welfare's decision to revoke Hwang's licence followed the retraction of his two papers on human embryonic stem cells published in Science The association responded with an open letter accusing the old editorial board of "undermining" the journal The catalogue of three-dimensional scans is to be completed in five years under a $2.5-million grant from the National Science Foundation. The decision came ten days after Hwang admitted ordering researchers to fake data for his 2005 Science paper, and nine weeks after the National Bioethics Committee released a damning report on the methods used by Hwang to obtain eggs for his work The journal's top two editors were sacked last month (see Nature 440 , 10 – 11 ; 2006 10.1038/440010b ) There are now no groups licensed to carry out such research for therapeutic cloning in South Korea, although several are licensed for in vitro fertilization-based human embryonic stem-cell research Three independent teams have now seen "supersolidity" in helium-4, a phenomenon first reported by Moses Chan and Eun-Seong Kim of Pennsylvania State University two years ago ( Nature 427 , 225 – 227 ; 2004 ) Through quantum effects, some of the solid then begins to flow